Monthly Archives: August 2012

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center has announced that 73 Kentucky primary care providers in 14 practices have been selected in the Cincinnati-Dayton market to participate in the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative. These Kentucky practices join in with 75 providers from Ohio to represent 261 physicians. A total of 500 […]

Dr. Melissa Zook, KAFP’s Secretary, received official notice that she has been appointed to the Kentucky Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee. The Committee makes recommendation to the Cabinet on prescription drugs to be added or deleted from the preferred drug list. For more info — click on this web link —

I spent last week at Southeast Forum and found many family docs in the south dealing with same issues we are in Ky. There’s a lot of angst re:Obamacare and expansion of Medicaid. There’s also still hope that something good will come from all this. The role of PCMH still looks favorable, we heard from […]